CONSERvATION Conversation

Conservation onversation

With Julie Ruth Haselden

Free Bay Currents Talk Tuesday, March 10 Leveraging Bay Area Technology to solve National Scientific Problems

How can remote DNA detection, drones, real-time sensing, artifical intelligence, and other new technology help to meet environmental challenges? Dr. Jonathan Stock, Director of the US Geological Survey’s Innovation Center, tells how the USGS is parternering with Bay Area scientific and technological powerhouses to deal with risks from earthquakes and floods, to extinction and pollution.

Bay Currents talks on Bay Area natural history and environmental issues, with emphasis on positive solutions, are on the second Tuesdays, January-April. and September to November at St. Alban’s Parish Hall, 1501 Washington Ave. (At Curtis, one block north of Solano Ave), Albany. Refreshments 7pm, talks start at 7:30pm. See this link for full spring schedule.

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Earth Day! Saturday, April 18 Point Pinole Regonal Shoreline 8:30AM to 12 Noon Join park staff for Earth Day 2020 to help remove invasive plants, and help to restore native diversity to the area. Be sure to wear comfortable, weather-appropriate clothes and closed-toe shoes. Registration on-site is required. Be sure to remember to bring your own gloves, and a refillable water bottle.

Snacks, water, tools and gratitude provided.

Meet up is at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline 5551 Giant Highway, Richmond, CA 94806

Contact Julie at jhaselden17@comcast.net